Event Title
MA09 - If These Walls Could Speak
Location
VAB-108
Start Date
3-11-2017 4:45 PM
Description
If These Walls Could Speak provides an alternative memory storage system using tangible objects and audio tracks versus the written words. Using river rocks as a memory token, a user can listen to past audio memories stored in the stones and record their own new ones. This piece explores new forms in tangible memory collection by allowing users to store their memories in a physical object. In this way, the project contributes to the development of ubiquitous tagging and electronic literature by providing an aide for sharing and preserving stories. If These Walls Could Speak creates a non-linear memory storage system from a collection of rocks, where each stone can recall an audio history of its significance to its collector. Unlike a traditional diary, If These Walls Could Speak is organized by objects versus chronology. This allows people to quickly jump to the story they would like to hear by selecting the rock associated with that memory. In doing so, If These Walls Could Speak creates a ready-to hand tangible user interface devoid of graphics and screens, while relying on touch and hearing for interaction. This conceals the technical components that make it work. With this interface users can preserve their memories for friends and family.
MA09 - If These Walls Could Speak
VAB-108
If These Walls Could Speak provides an alternative memory storage system using tangible objects and audio tracks versus the written words. Using river rocks as a memory token, a user can listen to past audio memories stored in the stones and record their own new ones.
